A familiar, colorful site on Market Street is Beck’s Motor Lodge, which has been welcoming visitors to the Castro since 1958 when the neighborhood was known as Eureka Valley. The recent renovation modernized guestrooms, revamped the building’s paint, and installed a fast, new elevator. The “buzz” about Beck’s also includes rooftop honeybee hives that help combat the worldwide honeybee colony collapse.
With travel increasing again as cities here in California and elsewhere move to less restrictive COVID-19 tiers, Beck’s is poised to be a home away from home for your friends and relatives visiting from out of town. For readers in other parts of the Bay Area, it also makes for a fun staycation base that is a short distance to other Castro adventures.